Deanna Hanna reveals too much
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State Senator Deanna Hanna has been attacked for arm-twisting the Colorado Association of Realtors for campaign donations. Specifically, she wrote to them, "There are going to be some very important issues ahead of us. You have a choice. So do I."
The constant need for such arm-twisting is a problem, because it establishes an inter-dependent relationship between legislators and lobbyists, and distracts elected officials from their official business. But in suggesting that there might be a trade-off between what the Realtors want and what the senator wants, she crossed a line.
How ironic that she crossed the line into the territory of full disclosure-- honesty, if you will-- about the true nature of the relationship between legislators and the donors to their election funds. We should all be aghast, not at what Senator Hanna has put into writing, but at the nature of politicking in this age of big money and corporate rule.
The constant need for such arm-twisting is a problem, because it establishes an inter-dependent relationship between legislators and lobbyists, and distracts elected officials from their official business. But in suggesting that there might be a trade-off between what the Realtors want and what the senator wants, she crossed a line.
How ironic that she crossed the line into the territory of full disclosure-- honesty, if you will-- about the true nature of the relationship between legislators and the donors to their election funds. We should all be aghast, not at what Senator Hanna has put into writing, but at the nature of politicking in this age of big money and corporate rule.
For years, other members of the Legislature have endured her serious lack of good common sense.
One might ask why if her collegues knew of her inability to use good judgement they haven't taken her to task for it before now. Unfortunately, they have, and as has been characteristic of her, she fails to listen.